起
Symbols Protection
uprising
義
ㄑㄧˇ ㄧˋ qǐ yì
Two versions of the same picture, and both are free with no account and no watermark. The first has no background at all, which is the one to send your artist — but a phone or computer photo viewer set to dark will show black strokes on dark grey and it can look like nothing downloaded. If that happens, use the second one: identical characters on a plain white background. Either way you get the characters on their own — the square and the faint guide lines you see above are not in the file. Each character is 1000px, so a two-character download is 2000×1000, and the script and layout are the ones you picked.
Script
Characters
Same in both
Layout
Rubbing mode: white on black, as a stone rubbing. The download is unaffected.
People rising against a ruler or an occupier. Chinese frames it morally - the usual word says the rising was just.
Before you commit
Choose with careNo single character means uprising. 起義 takes a side - it says the rising was justified. A ruler describing the same event would write 亂, chaos.
At small sizesTwenty-three strokes across the pair. Needs width; stacked vertically it works, but keep both characters generously sized.
Cultural note武昌起義, the 1911 rising that ended the last dynasty, is what most readers picture first. The word carries that weight.
Meaning
An uprising; to rise in arms for a just cause.
The standard word for a righteous revolt, from peasant risings to 1911.
Other characters for “uprising”
What to do next
Pick the script and layout you want above, download the PNG, and send that file to your artist. Ask them to work from the file rather than redrawing the character freehand — that is where strokes go missing.
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